Direct democracy and nonpartisan rep govt, for a species-mature governance

Direct democracy is a legacy from its 400 years in the Roman Republic. It comes to us in the Declaration Of Independence. DD/rep-govt was ruled a republican form of govt intrinsic to the Constitution by our highest courts during corruption-fighting in the Reform Era, 1898-1918. It needs upgrading to help us fight today's corruption. DD/rep-govt political junkies wanted.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Forward, Direct Democracy, 2.0

Direct democracy's (DD's) sovereign citizen lawmaking -- initiative and referendum -- is constitutional fact in 21 states (the I&R states) and thousands of "home rule" jurisdictions (city, county, borough, school districts, water districts, etc.). Additionally, many other states have various combinations of the DD governance components -- intitiative, referendum, and recall -- at the state level. In the US, DD is not the "pure direct democracy" of anti-democracy sophistry and propaganda. Citizen lawmaking in the US exists only in combination with represenative govt. Direct democracy (DD) citizen lawmaking (I&R) plus representative government -- DD/rep-govt -- is as American as government can get.

"That to secure these [unalienable] Rights," Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence (DOI), "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed." Those are governments of representatives dependent on consent of the governed, the sovereign people -- not governments of representatives giving consent of, by, and for themselves -- not governments of representatives who are sovereign over the people.

This very American concept of the sovereign people building and controlling representative government, which is clearly subordinate to the sovereign people, was widely held to be worth fighting for. And, of course, the sacrifices of ordinary Americans -- fighting, bleeding, killing, hating, and dying -- hallowed the DOI's conception of the sovereign people delegating just powers to their governments of public servants in the War of Independence, 1775-1783.

The obvious fact that the DOI's implied promises got the ordinary people fighting and kept them fighting -- it was continually read everywhere people would listen and posted everywhere that people might stop to read it -- was meaningless to the majority of the elites. That majority clearly saw the DOI as a Machievellian deceit that would allow their class to gain and hold social, economic, and political power is a new nation with astounding potential. From the new state constitutions, to the 1782 Articles of Confederation, to the 1787 Constitution, there is not one whit of evidence that the majority of elites ever intended to deliver the DOI's implied promises of founding principles.

Pure rep govt does not grant political equality to all citizens. Instead, it absurdly makes the public servants of the ruling elite vastly superior to sovereign civil society. It does not allow the sovereign people to speak for themselves. Instead, its charlatans, demagogues, and psychopaths get to legitimatly speak lies for, and in the name of, the majority of civil society. It does not allow sovereign civil society to directly elect all of its representatives. Instead, it maintains arbitrary corruption grounds called "the Electoral College" and "the independent judiciary" so that individuals in the highest reaches of power are appointed by the elites and insulated from the sovereign people. It does not allow the sovereign civil society direct access to lawmaking. Instead, it makes whatever convoluted, loop-holed, and unenforceable laws best suit its corruption-on-corruption-in-corruption for profits and power. It does not allow sovereign civil society to freely alter the details of their governance. Instead, it protects all of the arbitrary mechanisms that ensure the power of the psychopathic few against the welfare of the many with vague Constitutional provisions and elites-controlled amendment procedures. It does not prevent violations of citizen rights by zealous majorities, greedy corporations, the corrupting superrich, or government itself. Instead, it is the facilitator for rights violations by all of those societal elements -- for the benefit of the superrich, their corporate predators, and the predator politicians themselves.

The pure rep govt of the national Constitution is a profound disconnect between our DOI's founding principles and the elites' corruption machines that have dominated citizen life since the accumulation of wealth during the Civil War -- and the misuse of that wealth for political purposes.

All rights, freedoms, and liberties -- including especially the rights and powers of DD's citizen lawmaking -- limit illicit gains of profits and power. The country's central political conflict is not between left and right. The central political conflict is between the superrich of the class-race elite and the ordinary people's rights, freedoms, and liberties. It is Hamilton vs. Jefferson throughout our history, right into today.

To the class-race elite, any democracy is excessive democracy. And so we see today the great crippling of the electoral system with the Diebold-ES&S-Sequoia, hack-o-matic vote counting software. Any democracy is excessive democracy.

In the US, anti-democracy sophistry and propaganda portrays DD as a misguided effort to intentionally weaken rep govt. Oh, no -- not weaken rep govt. It's one of the emotional triggers that the elites hope will prevent people from examining the evidence. Examined, however, the evidence shows that nothing could be further from the truth.

In 1912, SCOTUS formally and legally ended predator claims that pure rep govt is the only legal and proper government. The predators, on their corruption machines, demanded that SCOTUS rule that citizen lawmaking violates the Constitution's guarantee of a "republican form of government" in the states. They argued that pure rep govt was the only republican form of government. They asked SCOTUS to pretend along with them that the historical examples of republics mixing citizen lawmaking with rep govt did not exist. They asked SCOTUS to sanctify their corruption machines. SCOTUS didn't play nice. The Court ruled that, based on the history of republics, the mix of rep govt plus any and all direct democracy governance components is a republican form of govt intrinsic to the Constitution.

See especitally, Robert G. Natalson's 1999 issue paper for the Independence Institute, Are Initiatives & Referenda Contrary to the Constitution? See also, David B. Magleby's 1984 book, Direct Legislation: Voting On Ballot Propositions In The United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

The people, SCOTUS said indirectly, are free to fight corruption with their own sovereign law. It's as it should be, in a constitutional republic. After all, the 400 years of DD/rep-govt in Republican Rome, BCE, gave the world the Greco-Roman culture -- a culture whose accomplishments still yield many important legacies, including direct democracy.

The sovereign people are free to check and balance their public servants in the three branches of govt, which, in times of wide-open and pervasive corruption -- e.g., the Guilded Age of the late 1800s, and now -- conspire with each other to reject as much of the Constitution as possible, especially the checks and balances between the three branches. When powerful, arrogant individuals in the three branches of govt collude to overwhelm the Constitution and place themselves above the law, only the sovereign people can hammer them back into their places as public servants under the law.

The people were able to gain enough leverage during the corruption fighting of the Reform Era, circa 1877-1918, to hammer the public servants back into place. However, the public servants did not stay hammered. The people mistakenly walked away from their wins with no institutions in place to control future corruption. Predator elitism's corruption machines snapped back quickly.

By the end of WW1, infused with wealth beyond imagining, the predators collapsed social justice for women and children, gaining cheap labor and driving the 1920s business boom. They bought out US national government, running one wild-eyed, money-mongering scheme after another until their corruptions collapsed the stock market in 1929. Flashing their collective psychopathic personality, demonstrating a complete lack of concern for the lethal harm that their corruptions had done to ordinary people around the world, they waved fops at the people and drove their destructive, money-power-first policies on for another three-plus years, steadily worsening the Great Depression into 1932. As with psychopathic murderers everywhere, they did not stop until they were incapacitated -- by Election 1932 and FDR's presidency.

We'd better get a firm grip on that historical lesson. If we fight the corruption machines today -- if we don't sit on our hands waiting for govt to save us -- we'd better remember that predator elitism is never defeated. The past failures of greed teach no lessons to the greedy -- ever. Give them any latitude, and they will build up from their corporate fascism, plan for thirty years, and then march their fascist despotism right back over the top of us to grab their obscenely excessive profits and power again.

In 1934, Nebraska citizens stepped around the corruptions of party politics and created the first nonpartisan unicameral legislature. Citizens used their initiative powers and rights to reduce their corrupt partisan bicameral to a demonstrably incorrupt nonpartisan unicameral, whose first session was in 1937. It is the only nonpartisan institution anywhere in American state government. Its 69 years of straightforward success adds nonpartisan representative government to the American mix and to the corruption-fighting legacy of direct democracy's I&R citizen lawmaking.

In Nebraska, as in 22 other active I&R states, the people can speak for themselves through the initiative and referendum processes. They have no need for a bicameral's House of Representatives or its corrupt majority of predator politicians. Our hopefully pending Constitutional renewal should make that a fact of political life in all states.

As soon as FDR was gone, the US homegrown corporate fascism began eroding everything that the nation had worked for in terms of social justice. The Nixon Era, the Reagan Era, and now the Bush Era have all been high points of American and globalized corporate fascism, each of them eroding social justice as much as the traffic would bear -- to maximize profits and power to the superrich, their corporate predators, and the predator politicians themselves.

The Bush-Cheney Usurpation, null and void from its inception under the principles of constitutional government and the rule of law, is nothing less than a 3-branch fascist despotism. Its interbranch collusions have lifted the fascist depotism above the law, obstructing justice for any of the criminal, Bush-Cheney players.

We have lost our constitutional republic, at least temporarily and possibly forever. Those of us who see the needed remedies that will get our nation back into the hands of the sovereign people are dismayed at the people's historical and civics ignorance, political incompetence, support or indifference for Bush-Cheney, and lack of impulsive organizing to bring their power to bear against this blatantly criminal and treasonous government.

We know that the fascist corruption machines can easily handle any recovery attempts that we might make within the institutions of pure rep govt. We know that the Reform Era legacy of DD's citizen lawmaking, plus the move to nonpartisan representative government spearheaded by Nebraska, is the answer.

Party politics will not get our country back. They are among the corruption machines that took it from us. The horizontally organized, nonhierarchical power of direct democracy is far greater than any political party.

So we look to the founding principles -- not of the Constitution, but to the Declaration of Independence. Those principles are the basis for the DD and nonpartisan rep govt that we collectively developed in the early 20th Century -- and that we need now to help us get our nation back.

The following text is in the sidebar here at DD Revival, under the title, "Executive Summary of Direct Democracy". Comments are not possible in the sidebar, so this post is being used to create a comments section.

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Executive Summary of Direct Democracy, 2.0

The 7 Governance Rights

Our patriot founders fought the 1775-1783 Revolution for the extraordinary rights of Americans implied in the Declaration of Independence. Those seven fundamental governance rights are --

(1) Individual citizens have the right to be politically equal with all other citizens.

(2) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to speak for themselves, in their voting majorities.

(3) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to be their own sovereign masters, democratically and directly electing all of their public servant representatives.

(4) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to remove any elected representative, for cause, without interference from government.

(5) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to control the output of legislation by formulating their own, by vetoing law made by government, and by affirming existing law in such a way that government is barred from amending it -- at every jurisdictional level, without interference from government.

(6) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to alter details of their governance, without interference from government.

(7) The sovereign people have the fundamental right to protect themselves from themselves by establishing the powers within government to administratively, legislatively, and judicially prevent zealous majorities, greedy corporations, the corrupting superrich, and government itself from violating individual and minority citizen rights, as given in the constitution and laws.

The predator elites were willing to bait the people into fighting for the DOI's rights, but they were not willing to deliver on their implied promises. All evidence -- the war-time state constitutions, the 1782 "Articles", and the 1787 "Constituton" -- shows that the DOI was pure deceit, pure Machiavellian deception, on the part of the majority of the American elites.

The elites greedily wanted as much social, economic, and political power as they could make off the backs of ordinary Americans. They were not about to give the rabble the rights that would limit elites gaining and increasing the profits and power that belonged only to the elites.

The elites were true to their class, not to their nation.

The 8 DD Rights

Ordinary Americans had to live with the ever-ratcheting corrupiton machines until long after the Civil War. Then the corruption machines became so oppressive, to so many people, that it raised the citizen backlash known as the Reform Era. The urban Progressives crashed into the systemic problems of the elites' half-republic.

Ordinary people had known from the beginning -- no citizen lawmaking, no republic. But they had been overwhelmed by the elites' sweet-talking liars. Then, in the butcheries of the Guilded Age, they saw that Aristotle's "false good" of giving too much power to the rich had turned into Aristotle's "true evil" of destructive constitutional encroachments by the rich.

True Progressives of that period didn't try to stop corruption by playing inside the box of the elites' corrupt rep govt. They didn't waste their time rebuilding some mega-corrupt political party that was demagogically promising to end the corruption machines and save the republic. They went outside the corrupt rep govt box and rammed DD's citizen lawmaking down the elitist throats of at least 19 state constitutions, arguably more.

The Reform Era was the greatest democracy movement of recorded history. Many tens of millions of ordinary Americans demonstrated that we the sovereign people have the power to rip the guts out of the corruption machines. They devised the greatest corruption-fighting package ever created by ordinary people against elitist domination and butchery of ordinary people for profits and power.

The eight DD rights sort themselves into three categories --

Administrative functions:

(1) The people's direct election of all representatives; done in open, fair, and peer-reviewed referendums called 'elections' (most Americans have been so propagandized into ignorance that they do not recognize "elections" as being either referendums or direct democracy), and

(2) the people's recall of a public official's election who has violated the public trust or simply offended too many citizens; done by petition process.

Legislative functions:

(3) The people's constitutional amendment initiative, to propose amendments to our consitutions without government interference; done by petition process;

(4) the people's statute law initiative, to propose statute law without government interference; done by petition process;

(5) the people's statute law veto, now known as the "referendum" (should be changed to the "remand" to minimize confusion), to reject statute law made by representative government; done by petition process; and

(6) the people's statute law affirmation to bar government from amending a law that the people do not want changed; done by petition process.

Consultative functions:

(7) The legislature's statute law referral to the people's referendum, and

(8) the legislature's constitutional amendment referral to the people's referendum.

The worst of the state-level corruption machines promptly disappeared into the smoke and mirrors of national govt. It looked like the people had won.

And then the civil society's political sophistication failed them. They made a horrendous mistake. They too-quickly turned away from their wins, returning to their own pursuits. They left no citizen institutions to watch over what they'd won.

The elites quickly, quietly, and deceitfully created their own "Take-Back Era".

In every I&R state, they overwhelmed the people's wins with unconstitutional statutes, using "separation of powers" violations and unlawful "binding judicial review of proposed law" to delay, alter, and/or reject citizen-proposed law that was offensive to money-power. Those unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous manipulations of citizen-proposed law continue to this very day, largely undiscovered.

However, the Reform Era DD legacy for corruption fighting lives on, locked away safely in the constitutional law of many states, where no representative can go. The greatest corruption-fighting package ever devised is just sitting there -- ready for us to clean up and use today.

Note, please, that the "Unity America" action plan -- a plan for springboarding off regional and national citizen action group (CAG) organizations to come -- incorporates use of the CAI in 17 states to reduce corrupt bipartisan bicamerals to relatively uncorrupt nonpartisan unicamerals. This assertion of our sovereign DD rights will take us a long way toward getting our country back.

It would make civics lessons flow like water across the country, increasing the people's political sophistication back toward what it was during the Reform Era.

The "Unity America" action plan is outlined in the post, "Open Letter To Susan--Making Bush-Cheney Null & Void", 13 September 2006, on this blog.

When we become sophisticated enough, and have gained control of our arrogant and corrupt governments, our sovereign citizen lawmaking will allow us to resolve our many critical political problems. One of the first should be the abolishing of the unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous Federal Reserve system. See especially, "The Fed -- Jekyll Island Monster", 07 July 2006, on this blog.

No sustainability economy will be possible until the private corporation Federal Reserve and its treasonous "fractional reserve banking" usury are dead and gone forever. The Fed is the overarching corruption machine that makes every other in the globalized, omnibus corruption engine possible.

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Note, please. This is direct democracy turf. It's outside the status quo corruption box. It's about fully independent citizen lawmaking, aided by Online Citizen Institutions, melded to nonpartisan rep govt. It's a species-mature governance that centers on political equality, rights, and the rule of law. It's about finding the Bush presidential usurpation to be null and void from its inception on 20 Jan 2001, reversing all of its acts done under color of law, and following with criminal prosecutions for felony conspiracies against citizen rights in all 3 branches. It's about Constitutional renewal, state and national. It's about I&R cleanup and criminal prosecutions in the states for unconstitutional blocking of I&R petitions. Profile -- 60-something techie city dweller, prone to wilderness. Ex-military. Dual majors, Univ Calif Santa Barbara, philosophy & history. Former claims rep, 1st-level appeals officer, SSI rep, and field rep for Social Security Admin. Founder, Direct Democracy League, Jan 1994. Columnist, Populist Party of America.

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Offshore Media

Special Reference--
Criminal Federal Reserve

"Open Letter To Gary North: Subprime Crashes Into Criminal Monetery System" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 30 December 2007. Brief subprime and central-banking recap first, then the Fed's and central banking's legal landscape, then a semi-rigorous examination and collapsing of North's unfortunate paraphrasing of central banking's pooh-poohing of subprime illegalities (everybody knew about the frauds, nobaody said anything about the frauds, making all the frauds "common practices", which are not criminal -- a new theory of law and arrogance writ large), then some questions for North at the end.

Aaron Russo's 2006 film, "America: Freedom to Fascism". Free-per-view at Google video, the film is also available on DVD from the AFTF site. Russo connects the unconstitutional and felonious "Federal Reserve Act of 1913" with the fraudulent 1913 ratification of the 16th Amendment and its unconstitutional "personal income tax". From that criminal tandem, he shows how the superrich of the central banking cabal are the true masters of our domestic and foreign policy-making. If Russo's film does not crank up your sense of urgency against the coming North American Union and its dollar-dumping "Amero", then you are probably useless to the American nation.

"Russo's 'Freedom To Fascism'" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 01 November 2006. This is a wide-ranging review of Russo's film. (It is a more rounded-out version of what was published on the Populist Party site as "Outing The Constitutional Criminals".) It argues that Russo's film is an invitation to examine the evidence, not emotion-triggering propaganda pointing people away from the evidence. The essay also examines some major supporting evidence only mentioned in the film and takes to task the money-power shill-trolls who spew lies to criticize the film.

"The Fed--Jekyll Island Monster" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 07 July 2006. Abolishing the unconstitutional and felonious Federal Reserve and its unconstitutional national debt is necessary to our rule of law. Abolishing the Federal Reserve system may be the only way to avert the financial collapse of the US.

Stephen A. Zarlenga's 2002 book, The Lost Science of Money: The Mythology of Money -- The Story of Power. Available directly from the publisher, the American Monetary Institute, Valatie, NY. Nature and history of debt-based money and why we need to institute a debt-free money system. Widely acclaimed by serious students of monetary economics. Former U.S. Treasury official, Richard C. Cook, writes -- "Stephen Zarlenga’s book ... is one of the most important books published in the world in the past 200 years. Someday it will be recognized for the classic that it is .... reform along the lines Zarlenga recommends could transform the economy of the world into a system that would benefit everyone, not just the monetary plutocrats who preside over the globalistic cannibalism that runs amok today."

Special Reference--
Dual-Mode U.S. Politics

Michael Parenti's 2007 (eighth edition) book, Democracy For The Few, Wadsworth Publishing. Parenti critically assesses the dominant dual-mode U.S. politics paradigm -- a public and seemingly honorable facade of fictions fronting for private, behind-the-scenes, criminal corruptions. "By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how U.S. Government works."

Special Reference--
Universal Health Care

"Universal Health Care--Myth and Truth" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 October 2007. Universal medical care insurance is not univeral medical care. It's a sop to corproate predators and the superrich from criminal politicians who want the superrich to use the Diebold Electoral Frauds to put them in high office. It's anohter predator elitism carpet-bombing of the middle and lower classes. And it's not just one-dimensionsal greed. Universal health care insurance is another smoke screen, covering the unconstitutional and illegal suppression of EDTA chelation therapy, a biochemical cleaning of the vascular system that is a preventative and curative therapy for atherosclerosis and most of its spinoff diseases -- such as cancer, heart attack, stroke, adult diabetes and on into a very long list. The suppression of EDTA chelation therapy likely could not exist in a universal health care system. The suppression of EDTA chelation allows the medical industry to gouge hundreds of billions of dollars annually out of the society. But beyond the greed-driven money-grubbing, there's horrific human cost. We lose over one million Americans each year to early and unnecessary deaths due to atherosclerosis. Most are not faceless. They're mothers, fathers, siblings, extended family, and friends. We desperately need universal health care.

"VA Medical--Reckless Endangerment Whims" --Neitzke, DD Revival, 13 September 2007. There's something very wrong at the Muskogee (Oklahoma) VA Medical Center (now re-named the Jack C. Montgomery VAMC). I went to their emergency room on 04 September 2007 with double pneumonia. In combination with my core conditions of insulin-dependent diabetes, heart problems, chronic renal failure, and chronic Reiter's syndrome (an inflammation, autoimmune, and bone-deterioration disease that also adversely affects many of my organs), the pneuomonia was a clear threat to my 60-something life. Needing hospital monitoring for any number of possible, near-future emergencies, I was instead given a shot, some antibiotics, some cough syrup, and then pushed out the door. They saved a lot of money by pushing me out the door. As if the reckless endangerment of my life were not enough, I later discovered that at least three doctors played parts in falsifying and fabricating records of my visit. The doctored records blur the evidence of my needing hospitalization, make the doctors look good, and make any complaint of mine look bad. Clearly, those doctors are deeply accomplished fabricators. A written complaint to the VA's "Office of the Medical Inspector" circled through the VA zero-acccountability system, ending with the Muskogee facility manager calling 16 November and giving me a thorough nazi stroking. It's way past time that we absorb the extensive infrastructure of the VA medical system into a universal health care system, ending the VA medical zero-accountability.

18 USC 3 -- Accessory After The Fact -- "Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact."

Gives the "null & void project" outline, describes the smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan, and discusses some standalone Constitutional amendments that we need to get passed.
Bush is not a president. He was not elected in accord with the Constitution. He is a presidential usurper whose usurpation violates the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution. His usurpation is the product of a wide felony conspiracy, defined in and violating 18 USC 241. By constitutional principle, his "presidency" was null and void from inception, regardless of when any judge finds the usurpation to be legal fact.
Every Bush action taken under color of law since 20 January 2001 is null and void -- and is an anti-law regime that has generated new felonies every time the individual anti-law regime has been applied. If we apply ourselves, it will take a decade or longer to unravel the web of treasonous felonies.
Nothing new under the sun. In the 60s BCE, Pompey ripped the anti-republican constitution and laws of the usurper-dictator Sulla out of Rome's legal fabric, returning Rome to the great republic that it had been for nearly 400 years.

Unorganized, we the sovereign people are nothing. Organized regionally and nationally in citizen action groups outside the political parties, the NGOs, the anti-war protests, and the flash mobs, we are all-powerful. We can operate citizen action plans such as "Unity America", adding a "jury nullification" project that will overturn the elitist judges' anti-Constitutional intentions.
Saul Alinski, hugely successful organizer of the left, 1940s to 1970s, taught his crews to "never do anything for anyone who can do it themselves--never", to "see the world as it is", to "fix on the world that you wnat to have", and to organize. We need to relearn those Alinski rules.

We should not trust a national Article 5 constitutional convention, no matter who calls it. Article 5 gives Congress an ace in the hole: the choice of ratifying any amendment in either the state legislatures or the special ratifying conventions.
Recent generations of predator elitists have been actively working toward superrich ownership of the state legislatures. "Soft money", with no limit and no accounting, floods perqs and the reelection campaigns at the state level. Ownership of the state legislatures by the superrich is obvious.
Hamilton's Article 5 is a trap. In this political culture of lying, where bribery money is SCOTUS-sanctified free speech, it will be a simple matter for the superrich to find sufficient sycophants among the convention's elected delegates. With the fawning parasites of the superrich crafting the convention's proposed provisions, and the superrich-owned state legislators voting ratification of the convention's proposals, citizen rights will be further limited and opportunities for predator greed greatly expanded.
I've shifted from advocating a 2nd NCC (national constitutional convention) based on Article 5 to advocating standalone constitutional amendments campaigned individually.
We can count on our amendments being willingly done by the politicians in Congress after they've gained THE FEAR from the continually escallating, smash-mouth politics of the "Unity America" citizen action plan -- or anything similar.

Another Motive For
Corporate Globalization

Two looks at a nasty surprise coming for Americans. In a parallel to Katrina's mauling of New Orleans, the natural disaster surprises have been secreted away from us by American govt.
Two active supervolcanoes in the western US -- the largest at Yellowstone, the other at Long Valley, just SE of Yosemite Nat'l Park in California -- are past-due on their supereruption cycles. In keeping with Bush junk science and fascism, data is being intentionally fragmented and/or hidden. The public is not being given anywhere near the complete picture for either of those natural monsters.
Geologic history shows that a minimal explosive supereruption is hundreds or thousands of times greater than St. Helens in 1980. Either of the supervolcanoes is capable of such a supereruption. The immediate kill-zone would be a radius of about 600 miles. Unprepared, tens of millions will die, just in the 600-mile radius. The western US will be largely destroyed. The midwest breadbasket will be largely buried in volcanic glass. Global volcanic winter will last 5 to 10 years, killing much of the biosphere. The event will seriously alter economics and politics around the world.
In apparent preparation, many US corporations have moved their production facilities offshore. In apparent preparation, the collusion of corporate fascism and US govt fascism is quietly birthing -- behind the busy political fictions that misdirect the American people -- the North American Union and its dollar-dumping Amero.

Lays out the growth of American fascism, from Rockefeller's Standard Oil, to the Gilded Age butcheries of ordinary people, to the German war-machine rebuild in the Interwar Period, to participation in and war profiteering from the Nazi slave-labor camps, to Nixon Era corporate laissez faire, to Reagan Era super laissez fair and voodoo economics, to Bush Era nation-crushing laissez faire and super-voodoo economics.
Compilation of twenty-six categories of Bush-Cheney fascist practices:
"No waffling. As with German and Italian fascism in the early 20th Century, the Bush-Cheney Usurpation is pure fascism. It demonstrates a strong-man leader, extreme secrecy, controlled media, fraudulent elections, judicial rulings clearly violating the Constitution, negation of the rule of law by all three branches of government, obstruction of justice for political and corporate leaders, the making of ex post facto law to immunize political and corporate leaders from past crimes, redefinition of established law for corruption and ideological purposes, redefinition of commonly understood language terms to avoid legal retribution (e.g., 'torture' to mean only treatment resulting in severe organ damage or death, and 'terrorist surveillance' to mean the interception of any communication or bank activity done by US citizens), the making of unconstitutional law to limit rights, suppression of Constitutional rights for profits and power, misuse of policy and law for unstated intentions, cronyism and corruption, sham national security obsessions, warmaking for profits and power, supremacy of the military, sham nationalism for the masses while leadership creates policy to benefit the transnational and stateless superrich, hard science made politically relative, anti-intellectualism outside the political and corporate elites, suppression of critical thinking in public education, intermixing of government and religion, enemies and scapegoats obsessions, destruction of undesirable minority population and cultural centers (e.g., Warsaw ghetto and New Orleans), male chauvinism and suppression of women's rights, and corporation protection extremes including lassez faire economic policy and suppression of labor's rights and power."
The essay briefly describes how we can get back our lost constitutional republic.

For over a hundred years, govts in the I&R states have unconstitutionally and arbitrarily delayed, altered, and/or rejected citizen-proposed law offensive to money-power. This gauntlet, to which every citizen-proposed I&R petition is subjected, is based on unconstitutional anti-law regimes passed by the legislatures and signed by the Governors as if they were proper statute law. The anti-law regimes include "separation of powers" unconstitutionalities, in which executive branch officials perform legislative branch functions, and the horrendously unconstitutional "binding judicial review of proposed law". No American constitution defines the judicial power to include binding review of proposed law. Judges would be quickly impeached and removed if they tried it on legislature-proposed law. For over a hundred years, the leadership of both major political parties have perpetrated state and federal felonies against every I&R petition processed by state govt. After the criminalities come the bad press for all citizen lawmaking. First the corruptions, then the lies. The clean-up is do-able.
Our constitutional renewals need to eliminate political parties from all govt matters at both national and state levels, following Nebraska's 1934 still-successful nonpartisan unicameral legislature. Nonpartisan rep govt, with fully independent citizen lawmaking, buttressed by online citizen institutions, is the species-mature governance that will auto-center on the social norms underpinning our Constitution -- political equality, rights, and the rule of law.

It's our best comparison-contrast of truth and the American situation. I hope the author will continue to develop and edit it over what little time we have remaining for dissent.

Remedies Essays

"Judicial Independence: Zero Accountability" -- Neitzke, 16 August 2006. Judicial independence was originally intended to keep the elites safe from commoners, not to keep judges safe from politicians. The zero accountability of judges led to SCOTUS crushing social justice in the Gilded Age, again in the 1920s and 1930s, and again in today's Bush-Cheney Usurpation. We need to end their aiding the predator elites with impunity. Bush v. Gore, 12 Dec 2000, was an unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous SCOTUS ruling that aided only the predator elites. We need to make the federal bench accountable to the sovereign people -- with nonpartisan elections and the recall by citizens in each Court's jurisdiction. Note -- This post marks my personal change from advocating a 2nd Nat'l Constitutional Convention to advocating standalone Constitutional amendments for our renewal.

"Extraordinary Rights Of Americans" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 24 May 2006. (Argues that fundamental human and political rights are humanly absolute, not politically relativistic, and that once established, such rights live forever. Further, that the "extraordinary rights of Americans", as distinct from the "traditional rights of Englishmen", were given to us in the Declaration of Independence, hallowed on the Revolution's battlefieds, and betrayed by the predator elitists who authored the Constitution.)

"Direct Democracy Rights" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 19 June 2006. (Argues that the January 1863 Emancipation and its murderous KKK aftermath is one of the great historical justifications for why the Constitution should have had DD/rep-govt from its beginnings -- and for why we should create it now.)

"Forward, Direct Democracy, 2.0" -- Neitzke, DD Revival, 27 June 2006. Last updated 27 September 2006. (Basic facts and developmental history concerning DD. Comparisons of the founding principles and implied promises of the Declaration of Independence with the realities of the pure rep govt political dynamic from the Constitution -- which buries the DOI's implied promises out of reach of the ordinary people, for the benefit of predator elitist profits and power. The sidebar essay below, "Executive Summary of Direct Democracy, 2.0", appears in this post so that readers can make comments on the sidebar text, if they wish.)

"The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World" -- Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, 27 June 2006. (Report based on year-long study concludes "that all three of the nationâs most commonly purchased electronic voting systems are vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election".)

"Group identifies new flaws in Diebold e-voting machines", The Raw Story, 31 July 2006. (Article, Diebold Hack-O-Matic II. Describes newly-discovered toggle switch inside the latest, no-paper-trail Diebold TS machines. Allows the hacker-operator to load different operating systems from different sources. The OS in the machine's EPROM is the certified software that can pass any test. Toggle the switch to load an uncertified and easily-hacked OS from FLASH. Will produce whatever vote count the hacker wants. Diebold has retro-fitted most of these machines with modems, so that the hacker can work by telephone. Switching back to the EPROM leaves no trace of what happened, but it does leave the hacked-in votes.